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Pnk Floyd-The Gunners Dream..

I love Pink Floyd, but Roger Waters seems like such a tool. I'm not denying he has talent and definitely was an integral part of what made Pink Floyd great, but he really seems like a whiny douchebag.
 
eldorado99 said:
I love Pink Floyd, but Roger Waters seems like such a tool. I'm not denying he has talent and definitely was an integral part of what made Pink Floyd great, but he really seems like a whiny douchebag.
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"The Gunners dream" is him expressing his displeasure at the time of Margret thatcher's starting a war over the tiny Falkland islands, in Water's eyes wars are started by politicians but suffered the most by people like him since he was never able to even remember his father who is, "The gunner"..
 
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Every Pink Floyd song is about Water's frustration with something. If Prozac was available in the 70's, we never would have had all those classic albums 😀
 
I love this album. People overlook it but possible pasts the title track and this really are well composed toughtful modern compisitions.


I can even accept the saxophone in this song as I am an avid sax hater. I call them pain sticks but w/e floyd rocks!

I will never forget meeting Roger Waters.


trough the fish eye lens of tear stained eyes.....
 
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Fritzo said:
Every Pink Floyd song is about Water's frustration with something. If Prozac was available in the 70's, we never would have had all those classic albums 😀
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sadly pain has brought us most of our greatest treasures from Van Gogh to John Lennon to Waters to Petrarcha




I performed for 20+ years and the weight of my childhood powered me trough the good times and the bad.
 
There are some really solid tracks on that album but I think one double album and full length movie are enough for Waters to dedicate to complaining about the hand he was dealt. I don't mean to take away anything from what happened to him, but it was kinda long in the tooth for my tastes by that point.
 
Platypus said:
There are some really solid tracks on that album but I think one double album and full length movie are enough for Waters to dedicate to complaining about the hand he was dealt. I don't mean to take away anything from what happened to him, but it was kinda long in the tooth for my tastes by that point.
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Good point, I think though the album was in particular a protest to Marget Thatchers immediate military response over a group of islands that for the most part is used for sheep grazing and wool production, "The Gunners Dream" is one that war is a horrific experience for so many and maybe they can all be over (or never started) someday and all the deaths and misery caused by it need not be experienced by anyone.
 
In the corner of some foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight ...


Great song and a fitting title for the album as technically its the last real Pink Floyd. I say it that way because Roger Waters wrote every song and did most of the vocals as well to the best of my knowledge so in a very real sense the band was already over.
 
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Captante said:
In the corner of some foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight ...


Great song and a fitting title for the album as technically its the last real Pink Floyd. I say it that way because Roger Waters wrote every song and did most of the vocals as well to the best of my knowledge so in a very real sense the band was already over.
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True, Gilmoure was pissed that Waters didn't give him enough time to write any songs for it, he went so far as to have his name removed from the album although since it was released with the Pink Floyd name he did share in it's profits (slim compared to "the wall" or "Dark side"..
 
Fritzo said:
Every Pink Floyd song is about Water's frustration with something. If Prozac was available in the 70's, we never would have had all those classic albums 😀
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IMO Waters has used his music & lyrics to speak to the angst and pain a lot of us go through; chances are good Roger had friends, acquaintances who lost their fathers to war, as well the millions he'd never met who've suffered the loss of a parent, sibling or close friend.

You don't get/maintain/and grow in fan base throughout the decades by singing only of your own ups and downs in life; the songs of Waters, Gilmour, et al as well as other artists in a measureable way touch all of us.

But yeah, The Final Cut is an awesome and underappreciated album.
 
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